“Have you checked Plurk out? There is a nice group of educators on there…” and there is also a Diigo group for Pluking Eucators, created by Jo McLeay, a friendly teacher from Australia .

As Kwippy really had not convinced me that it had something different to offer from Twitter, I decided to have another look at Plurk and found that I could quite easily import my Twitter followers into Plurk. Easy, I thought-but what is the point? Funnily enough, I found that people had slightly different connections on Plurk and through the same “friends”, I often got to befriend different people.

When I started on Plurk, I asked straight away what was the difference with Twitter and I was directed to a number of bookmarks about this well-debated topic of conversation.

I like Plurk for its tidiness as it makes it easier to develop deeper professional conversations in it and in some ways to find out more about the people you befriend. However, I feel it can lack the spontaneity Twitter has and the fact that there are now so many tools to complement Twitter.

Twitter is messy, can be disorganised and unreliable but it does have that infectious energy that will be very hard to beat…

4 comments:

You can only effectively use so many tools. It took me ages to bother with Twitter, now I'm sticking with it.I signed up to Plurk and like the look of it, but I too like the ease of Twitter.With mail, feeds, bookmarking, commenting etc. and let's not forget life in real-time, I have concluded I don't have any time left for any more tools.Elaine

You have hit the nail on the head with this post. Twitter has its moments, and Plurk is easy to use (tidy). I have always enjoyed reading your blog and this post is very thoughtful as well. Enjoy being your colleague/friend on Twitter and Plurk. Thanks!

I totally agree with you but I really wanted to know if something could have replaced it. After all , I used to think del.icio.us could not be improved on and I was proved wrong with Diigo...Like you,I really cannot see that anybody could run simultaneously more than Plurk and Twitter and still have face to face conversations as well! I know my Plurk updates will always be fewer but I am looking forward to get to know better some of my Twitter friends via Plurk...

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Head of Modern Languages in the North West of England,French & Spanish specialist with experience of Primary French & Spanish, German & EAL, Oldham SLN Lead Teacher, Regional Secondary Adviser 2009-10 for the Association for Language Learning and member of ALL's executive council, Language Consultant and Trainer for Links into Languages (until March 2011), Proofreader, qualified Translator and Interpreter (ESUCA, Toulouse University, France).